Boston

Boston is a city in the United States and capital of the state of Massachusetts, and was formerly a trade hub of the Thirteen Colonies. It was a large city where the American Revolution was born, and was the focus of the Intolerable Acts of the 1760s-70s.

History
Boston was founded in 1630 by English settlers, who named the city after the old city in Lincolnshire. In 1635 the first American public school was created in Boston, and it grew with trade and immigration. It was the largest city in the Thirteen Colonies until the growth of Philadelphia in the mid-1700s. Boston flourished until taxes from Great Britain were placed on the city starting in 1765, and the Sons of Liberty cause formed, and the Bostonian resistance would start the American Revolutionary War.

In the 1850s the population swelled with Irish, Germans, Lebanese, Syrians, French Canadians, Russian Jews, and Polish Jews, and the city became the 21st largest city in America with 7,600,000 people living in the "Greater Boston" metropolitan area.